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Re: s/o that "i'm so pretty" lady and free stuff
I am so jealous of this. In my perfect world everything tastes like peanut butter and dark chocolate.
From MSN:
?But do I regret my article? Not at all,? Brick wrote. ?I know I?m risking the wrath of the online community once more, but there is an irony to yesterday. While I was tearfully dealing with the emails and calls outside the supermarket, a young man approached me, offered to park my car and even get me a coffee. He could see I was having a tough time ? and yes, my looks had helped me out again.?
Or maybe because you looked like sh~t and he thought you could use a friendly gesture, no?
See I don't like this because men here seem to always expect something at least a conversation if they offer to buy you a drink. If I'm not interested in the guy I just say no thank you...meh lol.
It's okay, Smock. I'm running with "too intimidated by my beauty to give me free shiit."
I'm pretty squarely in the average-looking category and I've refused to date / to keep seeing men because they were way too pushy about wanting to "take care" of me.
Not dropping a dude who brings up what he could buy you on the first date is a one way ticket to Married to Misogynist Ville -- as Captain Don't Hate Because I'm Beautiful demonstrates.
I've gotten normal date stuff but turned down crazy stuff from a trip to a car to a couple hundred dollars at a time. So yeah, if anyone pursues that kind of guy they'll come home with some bling.
I like the way you think, Motzie. Yeah, it must be because I'm SO gorgeous that everyone is too intimidated to even LOOK at me. YEAH!
Drinks. All of the time.
Other than that... I don't think so? A lot of old guys tell me I'm pretty though. Maybe they just aren't rich enough?
Yeah, it sounds like she really sees what she wants to.
The young man probably would've done the same if he'd seen someone his grandmother's age who has visibly upset.
I've been offered a couple of trips, but not by randoms. They were from guys I had seen or was seeing to some degree.
I agree that a cup of coffee for someone who is visibly upset has nothing to do with looks. That was just a nice guy who was hoping to help someone to have a better day.
He was a valet at the restaurant next door and they just wanted her to move her boo-hooing azz off their property
Currently Reading: Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
lol
I've gotten free food and free drinks. I like to think it's because I'm friendly and polite, but who knows. Even at my chubbiest guys would buy me drinks and talk me up when I was at bars.
I would feel uncomfortable accepting anything bigger than that from a stranger though.
I feel like the kind of guy who thinks he can buy a conversation with a drink first is asking to get taken. I'm not so scary that I'll turn away a good conversation. I like to think most women are like that.
True...
someone paid for my McD's drive through at midnight a few weeks ago...I know this person didn't see me, it was midnight and dark and they said they'd pay before I pulled up under the light. (I don't know what he/she looked like, just that he/she drove a yukon).
On a different day, I might assume 'trying to pick me up/flirt/whatever'. At that moment, I assumed 'random act of kindness'.
(which I still need to pay back/forward. Maybe at starbucks this weekend :-P)